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Old Aug 16, 2009 | 07:18 PM
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My front passenger side O2 sensor is not getting a reading. I'm interested to know what the problem could be.

I am sure the O2 sensor is in perfect working order - That can't be it.

I plugged the rear O2 harness into the front O2, and switched the pins in the PCM (essentially switching the rear O2 harness and making it a front harness) and still, no reading.

What could be the problem?!

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Old Aug 17, 2009 | 08:46 AM
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Maybe the ecm pins didn't snap in all the way, or you got one in the wrong place. Did you ohm each wire out to be sure?
What happens when you swap the sensors side to side?
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Old Aug 17, 2009 | 09:32 AM
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What do you mean, no reading? Because even an
open sensor ought to fault out and produce a 490mV
(or so) scan tool reading. If you get nothing -at all-
then it's something besides the sensor. If it's stuck
mid-range then this is a sign that there is a stored
code and that bank has been forced open loop.
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Old Aug 17, 2009 | 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Jays_SSZ28
Maybe the ecm pins didn't snap in all the way, or you got one in the wrong place. Did you ohm each wire out to be sure?
What happens when you swap the sensors side to side?
I'm sure the pins were in all the way. I haven't omh'd each wire though.

When I swap a perfectly good sensor from the drivers side to the passenger side it doesn't work.

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What do you mean, no reading? Because even an
open sensor ought to fault out and produce a 490mV
(or so) scan tool reading. If you get nothing -at all-
then it's something besides the sensor. If it's stuck
mid-range then this is a sign that there is a stored
code and that bank has been forced open loop.
I should have specified. It flatlines. IIRC it reads a constant 460mV, or some reading close to that. It doesn't budge. The drivers side on the otherhand is moving around happily.

The car is currently in open loop since the second it's put in closed loop, it runs terribly (because of the sensor).
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Old Aug 18, 2009 | 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Spd-Kilz
When I swap a perfectly good sensor from the drivers side to the passenger side it doesn't work.
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Must be the wiring.
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Old Aug 18, 2009 | 09:38 AM
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had the same problem, took the 2 block harnesses off the PCM and cleaned and reset them, mine works now.
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IT WORKS!

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What was the problem?
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